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In 2005, Sam Guarino’s family donated his blacksmith shop building the city of Abbeville, which relocated it to its current location on South State Street.
In the years since, the Sam Guarino Blacksmith Shop Museum has become an attraction for the city, highlighting the community’s strong Sicilian ties.
Plans are now in place to ensure that continues well into the future, with some help from its friends.

You’ve heard of summer camps such as baseball, basketball, softball, and football. But there is one camp you may not have heard of this summer. It is an art camp.
Yes, an art camp.
Last week at North Vermilion High School, NV art teacher Kelly deClouet held her first art camp in her classroom.
In her first year, 45 students of different ages attended the camp. Each session had a limited amount of 24 students.
In the morning, there was third grade through fifth grade, and in the afternoon, sixth grade through eighth-grade students. Each session was four hours.

Last week, residents who live on Revelation Drive north of Erath were worried about a charter school being built in their backyard
They voiced their concerns to the Vermilion Parish Police Jury last week. They worried about flooding when the charter school elevated the property.
The Williams Scholar Academy Board listened to their worries and decided not to relocate their temporary school on Hwy. 338. The charter school will remain at its current location on the grounds of Lighthouse for Jesus Ministries near Abbeville.